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Re: ISA Option ROM booting capability
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Robert Millan |
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Re: ISA Option ROM booting capability |
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Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:07:05 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
Hi,
Are you still interested in getting this merged? If you are, please let
us know. We'd need you to submit a patch to the list in that case
(external URLs are problematic). Don't worry if it's not up-to-date,
for initial review it should be OK.
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 09:10:29PM +0200, UrJiZ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Nov 20, 2007 9:14 AM, Bean <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > 1, use gas syntax, it's not that much source, just convert it.
> > 2, don't embed core.img, instead compile header seperately, and create
> > the rom image by catenating the header and core.img
> > 3, Use romchk to zero-pad the rom to 64K, and fix the checksum. It can
> > be quite useful if it can also configure runtime variables like the
> > hotkey and timeout.
> >
>
> Here's some list on what i've done:
> - converted the code to gas syntax... (I don't really get why, NASM is
> so much better in bootloader-like things...)
> - modified grub-mkrom to be able to compile it (dunno whether the
> current cpp + as + ld is the correct way, but it works)
> - added static offsets in image for the runtime variables...
> - modified romchk to be able to modify 'em
> - added grub-mkrom to be able to pass the variables to romchk (also
> has --help now)
> - added a tiny clean-binaries script ... it's just replacing "make
> clean" for now.
>
> And here's the new archive:
> http://88.193.31.35:8080/urjaman/romboot2.tar.gz (or
> http://rapidshare.com/files/72238464/romboot2.tar.gz.html ).
>
> Any comments are welcomed, good or bad.
--
Robert Millan
The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
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